Weirdest Blender Sighting. Ever.

Bart · January 27, 2010

“Big Buck Bunny (awesome CC movie!) sighting in a claw vending maching in a local shopping centre.”

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Davis

27 January 2010 at 15:12

I’d love to hear the explanation behind this.

Terry

27 January 2010 at 15:21

I wonder if the claw vending machine had bunnies in it or squirrels, that would be my guess!

Daniel (aka @thisismywww)

27 January 2010 at 15:35

@Terry, it was a chocolate vending machine (the machine being called Chocoholic and all).

I spotted this as we were waiting to catch a lift. I looked over and saw BBB on the screen and had to take a picture of it. Unfortunately you couldn’t hear the soundtrack

My 3 year old son was there and I asked him “Who’s that?”. He told me “Big Buck Bunny”. No one else there would have realised what the animation was :-(.

This was my first ‘Blender’ related sighting in Sydney (aside from the couple of times I think I’ve seen Matt Ebb walking through the city ;-) ).

WiKKiD Widgets

27 January 2010 at 15:56

Coming soon! the Big Buck Bunny plush doll!! (Hey, I’d buy it just cuz.) :)

Senshi

27 January 2010 at 16:10

Well that’s only slightly vague xD Nice sighting!

nemesis

27 January 2010 at 16:19

Love it:)

JoOngle

27 January 2010 at 17:02

LOL! Thats Hilarious :)

Zecc

27 January 2010 at 17:15

I thought it was a vending machine selling claws, but instead it’s just a vending machine with a claw.
What a disappointment!

MeshWeaver

27 January 2010 at 17:16

lol, BBB in a claw-machine… :D

Shane Newville

27 January 2010 at 19:58

I would definitely play to watch. …only if the money was donated to Blender Foundation.

spacetug

27 January 2010 at 20:22

it’s the claw!!

weird.

agaly

27 January 2010 at 20:44

This strangely reminds me of Toy Story.

TimC

27 January 2010 at 22:15

I think Elephant’s Dream would have been a better selection for a claw machine…

TerryH

28 January 2010 at 03:10

“Big Buck Bunny plush doll!”

BF should actually do that — it would sell. I know I’d buy one. Possibly more than one. My kids loved BBB.

I can’t say I recommend it for ED. Action figures maybe. ;-)

Papasmurf

28 January 2010 at 03:38

This takes the cake, er, claws the cake.

Dm7

28 January 2010 at 12:52

Now that’s the weirdest sighting ever! Period.

Thank you for brightening my day up because:
1) Unexpected discovery hehe
2) In claw machine? What? Chocolate? What? lol!!!! BBF doesn’t even have chocolate…

So freakin’ hilarious!
Maybe big bunny should be eating chocolate instead of apple while walking around.. mmm… gotta say, I can’t complain, the more people see it, the better it will be. ;D

Marc

31 January 2010 at 06:11

No licensing fees, and with cheap electricity, a way to grab kids’ attention, hopefully make them stay at the machine longer. I think it’s a great way for a business to put this type of content to use.

banor

31 January 2010 at 06:27

Man, weird…. lol :)

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